Linux Men Women

Birds and bees have as much to do with the facts of life as black
nightgowns do with keeping warm.
                -- Hester Mundis, "Powermom"

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least
when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
                -- James Thurber

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
                -- Kin Hubbard

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both.
                -- Samuel Butler

By all means marry: If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you
get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
                -- Socrates

Changing husbands/wives is only changing troubles.
                -- Kathleen Norris

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she
were a man.
                -- Joubert

Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
                -- William Congreve

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the
opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
                -- Oliver Herford

Dear Miss Manners:
I carry a big black umbrella, even if there's just a thirty percent chance of
rain.  May I ask a young lady who is a stranger to me to share its protection?
This morning, I was waiting for a bus in comparative comfort, my umbrella
protecting me from the downpour, and noticed an attractive young woman getting
soaked.  I have often seen her at my bus stop, although we have never spoken,
and I don't even know her name.  Could I have asked her to get under my
umbrella without seeming insulting?

Gentle Reader:
Certainly.  Consideration for those less fortunate than you is always proper,
although it would be more convincing if you stopped babbling about how
attractive she is.  In order not to give Good Samaritanism a bad name, Miss
Manners asks you to allow her two or three rainy days of unmolested protection
before making your attack.